Fellow “Park District” Voters, Please Don’t Re-elect Carl Paladino

Today being Buffalo School Board election day, I am doing something that I have not done before – re-publishing an earlier post.

In March 2015, exasperated by Carl Paladino’s tiresome antics, I looked ahead and asked the voters in South Buffalo not to re-elect Carl in May 2016. Well, the day to vote for School Board members is here, and my opinion of Mr. Paladino’s worthiness to serve on the Buffalo school district’s board has not changed. One thing that has changed, however, is my place of residence. I now live in the “Park District,” and I was able to walk to my polling place on Seneca Street and cast a vote on behalf of Carl’s challenger, eighteen-year-old Austin Harig.

Just in case Carl Paladino is deluding himself and thinks that it’s only African American clergypersons who wish that he would resign from Buffalo’s board of education, I have news for him. THIS ITALIAN-AMERICAN LAWYER FEELS THE SAME WAY.

The good people of the “Park District” gave the erratic developer nearly 80% of the vote in March 2013 and elected him to the City of Buffalo’s School Board. What were they thinking? The responsibilities of a board of education member is serious business, not “reality TV.”

Mr. Paladino’s antics three years earlier – during his unsuccessful bid for New York State governor – were embarrassing and disheartening to anyone who values civil discourse and rational behavior from its public servants. The last thing that Buffalo’s public school students needed was the hostility and dictatorial personality that Carl would bring to the already-charged board of education table.

This is not the type of behavior that elected school board members owe to their constituents, especially the school district’s children.

Unless the inconceivable happens and Carl Paladino resigns his seat, we can only hope that Buffalo’s school board will overcome Mr. Paladino’s presence the next 15 months [his current term ends on June 30, 2016], and that the voters in the “Park District” will recognize that the City of Buffalo’s children will be best served if Carl Paladino were not a member of the Buffalo board of education.

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